- Apr 19, 2018
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I’ve got two - a few years ago I recruited a woman with the same name (first name and surname) as my daughter. Over the next few weeks we discovered her Dad’s name and my name are the same, he and I are about the same age (though she’s older than my daughter). Her birthday and my daughter’s birthday are about a week apart, my birthday and her Dad’s birthday are a week apart, and she and I had lived in the same room in a shared house in Brighton (the job was in London and she now lived in Essex hence it being even weirder) with about 20 years between us doing so.
The other, I was in a hotel for work a couple of years ago and (this sounds like a cheesy chat up line, but wasn’t) a young woman came up to me and said she knew me and couldn’t work out where from and she’d kick herself if she didn’t say hello and find out.
We got talking and couldn’t find any way we have any crossover in our lives where we would have met, she lives nowhere near here and had only visited once a long time ago, but our lives follow weird parallels. Without making this a huge massive post, details of career, family, my wife/her husband, childhood memories, sporting injuries we’d had and how we’d got them, siblings and their lives and careers, just an incredible number of things where it was like she was a female, 20 year younger version of me. Proper goosebumps at times because it felt like we knew each other and each others memories inside out, and the number of times through work travel we’d almost had an opportunity to meet in recent years was insane too - often arriving at the same places, not just in the UK, but elsewhere too, two or three days after the other had left but a gradually reducing gap almost like a countdown to actually meeting. Different professions and seeing different clients, but similarities too.
We keep in touch occasionally still, she describes it as too strong a connection to let slip because it was like we were instant close friends, and still find there are details of things that are just bizarrely similar. She jokes that she can look at me and map out her future because there’s no point fighting that it’ll just be the same as our “shared” past.
The other, I was in a hotel for work a couple of years ago and (this sounds like a cheesy chat up line, but wasn’t) a young woman came up to me and said she knew me and couldn’t work out where from and she’d kick herself if she didn’t say hello and find out.
We got talking and couldn’t find any way we have any crossover in our lives where we would have met, she lives nowhere near here and had only visited once a long time ago, but our lives follow weird parallels. Without making this a huge massive post, details of career, family, my wife/her husband, childhood memories, sporting injuries we’d had and how we’d got them, siblings and their lives and careers, just an incredible number of things where it was like she was a female, 20 year younger version of me. Proper goosebumps at times because it felt like we knew each other and each others memories inside out, and the number of times through work travel we’d almost had an opportunity to meet in recent years was insane too - often arriving at the same places, not just in the UK, but elsewhere too, two or three days after the other had left but a gradually reducing gap almost like a countdown to actually meeting. Different professions and seeing different clients, but similarities too.
We keep in touch occasionally still, she describes it as too strong a connection to let slip because it was like we were instant close friends, and still find there are details of things that are just bizarrely similar. She jokes that she can look at me and map out her future because there’s no point fighting that it’ll just be the same as our “shared” past.
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